NOTE: This message was originally in conference "Yet Another One"
      and was copied here by Kerry Vinson.
From: Kerry Vinson [vinsonkm@partyline.net] Subject:        ..another ritual 
suicide coming soon..
Say, the Ratifa Underground Development Monastery dial-up BBS will officially 
commit suicide with Toast House to commence April 1st at 12:01am. It will be 
a quick and painful death, and rather scary in that we run the same software 
on our BBSes. Yes it is short notice, but that is brilliant. After all, 
Hale-Bop will come the closest to our physical bodies on Earth approximately 
5 hours or so after the Final Exit.
At approximately 12:01am on April Fool's Day, our BBSes will make the Final 
Exit and power down until after the comet has passed over us...
One thing is certain, however. Although we will no longer function as BBSes, 
we will most likely be put to better use. R.U.D.M. will become a telnettable 
interface one way or another real soon after the Final Exit. Let us just 
pfhreak the pfhuck out oh brothers and sisters!
As many of you may be aware, we will also have a firewall, mail, web, news, 
ftp, telnet, and much more. This next step in the higher evolution of the 
Ratifa Undergound Development Monastery is to travel to the new destination 
following the death and birth with Hale-Bopp to become the new home of 
RUDMweb. 
RUDMweb will always be accessible. MorE details following the Final Exit.
MorE about the Final Exit.
Mark my words, there will be a sudden increase in global suicides around the 
time Hale-Bopp makes its closest distance to the Earth. As BBSes and people 
alike know, that comet is the trailblazing force of the collection of 
something right behind it. God, are we ever listening!
It could very well be a universal truth that the type of enormous energy 
behind it is a seduction. It could also be said that it is our ride, on to 
the next level of our existance, the massive soul that keeps rolling and is 
well best put in Paradise Lost. However, it is the clear sign of what must 
happen.
R.U.D.M. loves you all. And if I don't hear from you, maybe I'll see you on 
the other side...
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